IIT (BHU) Submission on the CoNLL-2016 Shared Task: Shallow Discourse Parsing using Semantic Lexicons
Manpreet Kaur, Nishu Kumari, Anil Kumar Singh, Rajeev Sangal · 2016
This paper describes the Shallow Discourse Parser (SDP) submitted as a part of the Shared Task of CoNLL, 2016.The discourse parser takes newswire text as input and outputs relations between various components of the text.Our system is a pipeline of various sub-tasks which have been elaborated in the paper.We choose a data driven approach for each task and put a special focus on utilizing the resources allowed by the organizers for creating novel features.We also give details of various experiments with the dataset and the lexicon provided for the task.